Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m.
...-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screens are a high-throughput systematic approach for identifying genes involved in ...effects of gRNA and Cas9 expression, they fail to account for the effects of Cas9-induced dsDNA breaks...library that has 10 gRNAs per gene and targets all ~20,500 protein-coding genes. Unique, non-overlapping sites... either stably expressed Cas9 or that had been lentiviral infected with Cas9.
Validating the Library
The...88% of previously identified essential genes while previous Cas9 and shRNA library screens only identified... identified ricin toxicity genes. The screen also discovered several genes previously not associated with...p-values of known ricin regulation genes compared to results generated using non-targeting guides as controls...